“What does it mean when a Hindu from the South Side of Chicago joins forces with an evangelical Christian from Louisiana to fight for the rights of religious minorities abroad?”

Fascinating article about my friend Anurima’s friendship with head of the Family Research Council in NYT (gift link)

https://nyti.ms/3Dsh0sf

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Salam everyone,
We are trying to raise funds to buy reusable period pads that we intended to give out to young Girls in Somalia !
Young girls deserve access to clean menstrual pads so pls help us achieve that!
Here is the link and thank you :) https://gofund.me/00a0ba81

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/kahaali67/status/1619448158211424258

"Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watch the great masters spar, but they have no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood and mortal wounds and stench.”

#SundaySentence from one of my favorite paragraphs in a book that expanded my expectations about what a novel could do in ways that I hadnt felt since Garcia Marquez: #RobertoBolaño's #2666

Carrying on David Abrams' #SundaySentence, the best sentence read this past week, without comment or context:

"Memories that were now little more than a taste or a scent, too distant to be anything greater."

From AN ISLAND by Karen Jennings

#reading #books

"Arm could see their faces in the bar mirror, looming like moons above the miniature skyline of spirit bottles arranged along the back shelf."

#SundaySentence from Calm With Horses by Colin Barrett (2014 Penguin Random House UK) https://bit.ly/3Wtd6Gi